There is no place a pheasant hunter would rather be on opening day than
in South Dakota. Jeff Fuller joins Brad Heidel of "Pheasants Forever" on
an upland hunt on Rivett Refuge Preserve in South Dakota. Good dogs and
good shooting is sure to make this an unforgettable experience.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Bird Dogs Forever Mearns Quail Hunt Episode Video
2001 Episode #8 of the Outdoor Life Series " Bird Dogs Forever". This episode features the first known television presentation of a Mearns quail hunt on actual wild birds. Don Lee and his dogs Slick and Sport guide Dr. Chris Hageseth on a fun adventure in southern Arizona near the Mexican border.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Delmar Smith named Park Cities Quail 2016 T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award winner
Written by Park Cities Quail
Park Cities Quail is proud to honor Mr. Delmar Smith as
the 2016 recipient of the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award to
be presented on March 3, 2016, during their 10th Annual Dinner and
Auction at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas.
Delmar has devoted a lifetime to the sport of gun dogs and
bird dogs as a breeder, trainer and judge. As a conservationist he was
at the forefront of ecological and biological studies to create superior
environments for the propagation of gamebirds. Those areas have since
been developed into excellent field trial grounds throughout the mid-
and southwestern United States.
Delmar grew up on a ranch in Big Cabin, Oklahoma where he
spent his childhood riding horseback to and from school and working for
local dog trainers. By the time Delmar was 13, he had saved enough money
from cleaning dog pens to take a horse-training course. He applied the
techniques learned in that course to create “The Delmar Smith Method”.
It was this revolutionary way for training bird dogs that led him to
become one of America’s most respected trainers producing two books and
three videos.
Many of Delmar’s own students have become excellent
trainers and field trial competitors and attribute their success to his
tutelage. Outdoor writer Tom Davis said, while it’s likely that Delmar
Smith has trained more bird dogs than anyone, ever, what’s not even
remotely in dispute is that he’s trained more PEOPLE to train bird dogs
than anyone. And he’s trained them to do it humanely and intelligently.
His seminars are now instructed by his son, Rick Smith, and his nephew,
Ronnie Smith.
Where women feel flush firing a shotgun at Broadfield quail
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright
WOODBINE, Ga. — On a Saturday morning in a Georgia Low
Country field dense with thickets and thigh-high briars, we hit the
trail with five other women, a hunting guide, an English pointer, a
black Lab, and loaded shotguns. We were on our first-ever quail hunt at
the Broadfield Sporting Club and Lodge. We were gun virgins. Before this
ultimate wild-to-table trip, we’d never shot a firearm.
We followed Cruz, the English pointer, as he zigzagged
wildly through the moss-draped pine forest and open fields. He was
clearly a happy dog, on a serious mission. “Yup, yup, yup,” Chuck Dean,
our guide yodeled, keeping Cruz in earshot if not in sight.
“He’s getting bird-y,” Dean said, motioning us to quicken
our pace. “Yep, he’s on point.” Up ahead, Cruz was poised, dead still,
in front of a tangle of briars. We took our positions, guns at the
ready. On command, Cruz flushed a covey of wild birds; we jumped; guns
popped. Nothing dropped.
“Those birds scared you, didn’t they?” Dean asked with a knowing smile. “But you shot the hell out of that tree.”
The birds were so small. They flew so low. It happened so fast. It was chaos. And thrilling.
“Break ’em down,” Dean said, instructing us to disengage the shotguns. “Let’s go. Cruz is already back on point.”
Guns scare us, but the idea of hunting for our dinner was
strangely appealing and empowering. And the Broadfield quail hunting
experience, operated by the Forbes five-star Sea Island resort, was an
easy, indulgent way for us lady novices to try out the traditional
sport. But if we had the notion that hunting was going to be a
backwoods, beer-soaked, mud-caked experience (and we did), it was
obliterated the moment we arrived at Broadfield.
“We all have a deep passion for the place,” said Lee
Barber, the general manager, as he drove us around the preserve. “We
hope you feel it too.”
The isolated, private preserve stretches across more than
5,800 well-maintained acres. Old logging roads crisscross through open
fields and forests of live oaks and towering pines, and lead to two
lakes stocked with bass and bream. Wildlife is abundant, including
turkey, deer, pheasant, and quail. The parcel was carved out of the
original 50,000-acre Sea Island Shooting Preserve, one of the South’s
earliest sporting camps.
There’s a kitchen, lodge, smokehouse, beehives, chicken
coops, and organic gardens on the property. While some guests stayed
over at the upscale resort on Sea Island (there’s shuttle service to and
from the sporting club), we stayed in the rustically elegant,
two-bedroom, three-bath cabin at Broadfield, with a stone fireplace and
golden pecky pine walls. We went to sleep under star-splashed skies and
awoke to birdsong.
The first morning, we ate fresh eggs with house-smoked
sausage and thick bacon slabs, creamy grits and buttery biscuits with
Mayhaw jelly, prepared by Caleb Smith, Broadfield’s talented young chef.
After the Southern-style feast, we headed to the shooting range for a
quick lesson, shooting clay pigeons with 20-gauge Beretta shotguns.
”You don’t aim a shotgun,” Dean said. “You point it.” Dean
taught us the proper stance, how to tuck the shotgun into the crook of
our shoulders (so it doesn’t kiss you when it kicks back), and where to
place our hands.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Good quail hunting continues in Oklahoma
by Ed Godfrey
Bird dogs have been staying "on point" a lot more frequently this quail season.
Quail hunters have enjoyed the best hunting in several years in western Oklahoma and are still pushing birds late in the season.
I have talked to a couple of hunters who have reported good trips in the last two week to Roger Mills County around the Black Kettle National Grasslands.
Weston Storer, biologist for the Beaver River, Optima and Rita Blanca Wildlife Management Areas, said more out-of-state bird hunters are showing up in the Panhandle as Oklahoma is one of the few states where quail hunting is open after Feb. 1.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Pine Top Plantation Yields Top Notch Quail Hunt
Lowcountry outdoors
When Pine Top Plantation owner Sandy Stuhr told me that his new Brittany Spaniel puppy named WeGo was pointing and backing his other quail ...
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